Timeline for Replacing Windows 7 security updates with anti-virus?
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| May 3, 2020 at 10:42 | comment | added | Damon |
@AlexCannon: It's not a software bug, though. It is a deliberate sabotage (for which, ironically, a "fix" was invented a week later, which simply replaces the IAT entry of the checking routine with a function that always returns true). Just like telemetry which sends every keystroke to a third party company in some undefined remote country, and allegedly even MS cannot tell for sure who gets what, is deliberate espionage and, where applicable, deliberate breach of privacy laws. Of course, laws are a mere joke (law applies only to those stupid enough to follo), so... that'll just continue.
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| May 3, 2020 at 6:13 | comment | added | Alex Cannon | Maybe a hardware maker in the future will include a BIOS option to reduce the reported CPU version to allow Windows updates to install! They've done it in the past to fix software bugs that made an installer fail when it detected newer hardware than it was designed for. | |
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| Mar 14, 2019 at 14:26 | comment | added | Alex Cannon | Or you can just install GNU/Linux and run Windows in a VM. The real issue here is that there will likely be several popular software programs or services, such as something like Facebook or gmail, that will either require Windows 10 or hardware that's less than 6 years old, and people will think that they can't live without it. | |
| Mar 14, 2019 at 11:12 | history | answered | Damon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |